A woman called my cell phone and claimed to work for Microsoft. She claimed that my computer was sending out viruses and she wanted me to give her access to my computer so she could fix it. I asked for her phone number and name so i could call her back and the number she said her name was Susan Smith and gave me was different phone number from the number she called me from. 340-481-2056
See Sharon's post. Same happened to me. I was told by a man with a heavy accent, who claimed he was calling from the Microsoft Security Center, that my computer was sending out 1000's of error messages. He tried to prove it to me by having me using certain key sequences on my keyboard. However, since I don't own a PC, I couldn't complete his directions, and once I told him that he said that I must be fooling him, at which point he immediately hung up on me. Afterwards, I used some Mac specific anti-virus and anti-adware apps that diagnosed my device as clean. I then called Applecare, which told me that this man would have probably tried to have me download adware on my device so that they could then provide me with a paid service to eliminate and monitor what they had me do. There is no reason to take a call from this number unless you want to try to waste their time by playing along with their scam and frustrating them.
Same as above. Some Indian dude wanting me to Run a windows command so he could whatever. I said it was illegal to record phone calls n he hung up ( but more than likely it was probably my voice I was hearing because of the VOIP or whatever spoof he was using), that or he was recording it too )